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Due to acutely continental climate (high temperatures in summer, requiring air-conditioning, and low in winter, requiring heating), almost half of all energy consumption in Uzbekistan (24.1 million tons of oil equivalent per year) is accounted for the buildings. A key issue in the energy sector is a high risk of rising gap between the demand for energy resources for residential, commercial and public buildings and the possibility of offering these resources in relevant conditions of consumption.

According to international research, the impact of e-money is largely different from the effects caused by other forms of financial innovation. On the one hand, due to some peculiarities electronic money can be used for the gradual reduction of cash payments that can help to optimize the payment transactions of the country.

Formation of a competitive market economy in terms of globalization and increasing global competition requires the development of market structure. World experience shows that the greatest potential from this point of view belongs to medium and large enterprises of manufacturing industries and high-tech services. Encouraging the entry to the market of new economic agents and maximization the efficiency of their production involves revising the model and instruments of macroeconomic policy.

The concept of "middle class" is closely related to the phenomenon of social mobility ‒ the movement of people up (or down) in the social hierarchy. This movement takes place through channels of social mobility, so-called social lifts ‒ the institutions that provide opportunities for people to improve their societal status. Such institutions include education systems and research activities, political organizations and the civil service, the labour market and entrepreneurship, service in the armed forces, professional sports and show business, informal social networks and others.

p style="text-align: justify;">The success of any policy from long-term economic development point of view is based on the ability to see the essence of the problem, to develop science-based scenarios describing ways to solve the problem, to select and implement the best options of all available alternatives. Long-term forecasts are important for the detection of serious challenges, which the country may face in the future, and for decision-making to mitigate the negative effects of these issues.

The state, as before, should continue initiating the reforms, carrying out its development function; otherwise, it will be difficult to talk about the creation of stable and dynamically developing industrial economy in Uzbekistan. However, the quality of state presence in the economy as the owner of the assets, as market participant, as regulator should change.

Today, entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan are considered as a target group of the reforms and as a potential driving force in the transformation of the socio-economic and socio-political spheres. The role of business is directly linked to the issues of formation and expansion of such social layer as middle class. Analysis of the results allowed to reveal and to summarize the most typical socio-economic characteristics of entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan, which promote or prevent them from becoming the middle class.

A key policy challenge of civil socialization at current stage is despite increasing of importance of non-institutional factors (ICT, Internet, social networks) there is a reduction in the role of the classic civil institutions of socialization. But implemented policy of civil socialization does not focus on operation in the new environment of the information society. The impelemented methods of propaganda don't efficiently use the ICT potential in work with youth, for which the Internet has become the main source of information.